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Saffron Waldon, Essex-based label which released items for many 8-bit formats, including the Beeb. Proteans is the best-known of them, one of a string of cacophonous, frantic alien zappers David Hoskins - of Speech! fame - released around 1983ish; see also Acornsoft's Hellforce and Postern's Firehawks.

Please contact me if you have any additional information about the company or its games!

3D Tanx

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Simple game in which tanks drive past and shoot you and you have a gun with which to shoot back at them, the 3D part comes in the fact that you move the elevation of the cannon which shoots tanks furthur away or closer. Not a bad game, but there's nothing much in it to keep you interested.

Dictator

A very boring game about you being a Dictator and having to control your population and basically everything that your society does - including keeping those pennies rolling in! It is played entirely in Mode 7 and as such is not much to look at.

Proteanse

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Fairly decent shooter, like space invaders except once the aliens get to the bottom of the screen they take off again, it plays quite well and is quite difficult. For an early Beeb game this was quite a good blast about, worth a play, a hidden game.

Slicker Puzzle

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Very tough puzzle game in which you have to get the pattern back in as few moves as possible, its like some sort of giant rubiks cube really and about ten times as difficult. Played in mode 2 the graphics are not amazing, but they dont really need to be as the puzzle is the meat of this one.

Sub Killer

A very simple game, you control a warship and have to bomb the submarines
passing below you, whilst trying to keep out of their line of fire too. The graphics are pretty bog standard, and the gameplay is not entertaining enough to keep you playing for more than 10 minutes at a time.

Superfruits

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Fruit machine game, why so many companies chose to make these games is anyones guess, they are all pretty much of a muchness to me. It has all the usual features, nudge, gamble, collect etc worth a play these games are always intriguing to me!